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5. Leandro Trossard

• Team: Arsenal
• Squawka Score: 69%

The wealth of attacking options at Mikel Arteta’s disposal has limited Leandro Trossard’s playing minutes, with him amassing 94 minutes in total after the Gunners’ opening three matches, in which he’s registered one goal. Last season, he managed 12 goals across 34 outings, one of them being Arsenal’s only goal in a 0-1 victory at Old Trafford, taking the Premier League title race to the season’s final day.

4. Luis Diaz

• Team: Liverpool
• Squawka Score: 70%

Before the September international break, Luis Díaz netted twice against Manchester United, meaning he’s scored more Premier League goals against them than any other opponent (4). He was also the first player to net twice at Old Trafford in the opening 45 minutes of a league game since Pascal Groß for Brighton in August 2022.

After the opening three matches of the 2024/25 season, he’s five shy of matching last season’s output (eight goals), his most in a Liverpool jersey during a Premier League campaign.

3. Bukayo Saka

• Team: Arsenal
• Squawka Score: 75%

The Arsenal forward had another incredibly productive season, scoring 16 goals, two more than his previous best. He also provided nine assists, two fewer than last season. However, regarding minutes per goal involvement, Saka scored or created a goal every 117 minutes compared to 127 minutes in the previous campaign.

He had at least 20 more touches in the opposition box than any other Premier League player in 2023/24 and was directly involved in more goals than his teammates. He also equalled some records of some Arsenal legends, becoming the first Englishman to score 15+ goals in a Premier League season for Arsenal since Ian Wright in 1996/97, the first Englishman to score 20+ goals in a single season for Arsenal since Theo Walcott in 2012/13 and the first Englishman to score home and away for Arsenal against Tottenham since Ian Wright in 1993/94.

Saka has since become the first Arsenal player to provide an assist in each of the first three games of a Premier League season since Thierry Henry in 2004/05.

2. Son Heung-min

• Team: Chelsea
• Squawka Score: 75%

The pressure on Son was immense when his partner-in-crime, Harry Kane, left for Bayern Munich last summer. However, Son rose to the occasion like the pro he is. He finished a disappointing season with his joint second-best goal return (17). He matched his best assist output (10), becoming one of just six players to score 10+ goals and provide 10+ assists in six different Premier League seasons after Eric Cantona, Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah.

10 of his 27 goal involvements were against the sides that finished in the campaign in the top four.

1. Mohamed Salah

• Team: Liverpool
• Squawka Score: 81%

Despite it not being his best season for Liverpool, Mohamed Salah still put up incredibly impressive numbers, setting several records. He finished the 2023/24 campaign with 18 goals and 10 assists in 32 Premier League appearances, becoming the first player in the competition’s history to score 10+ goals AND provide 10+ assists in three consecutive seasons.

The Egyptian also created more big chances from open play (22) than any other player in Europe’s top seven leagues and was directly involved in at least one goal against every opponent apart from the three promoted sides. He became the first player in Liverpool’s 131-year history to score 20+ goals across all competitions in SEVEN consecutive seasons and the first player in football history to score in five consecutive away games against Manchester United. 

He’s scored in each of his three Premier League games of the 2024/25 season, and could be only the second player to score in each of Liverpool’s first four in a season in the competition, after Daniel Sturridge in 2013-14. He could also be the third player to score in a manager’s first four matches in charge of a Premier League club, after Matt Le Tissier under Alan Ball (Southampton) and Fabrizio Ravanelli under Colin Todd (Derby County).

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Squawka Score metrics and weighting

We used Twenty3 Sport’s Discovery Tool to run a customised search. The Discovery Tool rates a player’s per 90 output in the metrics detailed below to produce a percentage score, referred to above as the Squawka Score.

Each player’s stats are compared to the average output of wide-forwards across the past three seasons of big-five European league football. The higher the score, the closer they rank to the 95th percentile and above for each metric.

We also weighted each stat from 1 to 5 to highlight the most important aspects of a wide-forwards’ play style, with five being the most important.

Here are the metrics used and weighting given to each metric to come up with the overall Squawka Score:

• 5 – Goal contribution, Open-play expected assists, Non-penalty expected goals
• 4 – Conversion rate (%), Percentage of open-play chances created that are big chances, Take-on success (%), Percentage of sequences featured in that end in a shot, Touches in opposition box
• 3 – Non-penalty shots on target, shot accuracy (%), Fouled in final third, Big chances created in open play, Possession won in final third
• 2 – Take-ons completed, Non-penalty shots, Open-play chances created, Passes into the penalty area
• 1 – Dispossessions, Final third passes completed, Through balls attempted

(-) indicates a weighting that favours fewer instances within the relevant metric (e.g. fewest fouls conceded from tackles made)

To be awarded a score, a player must have reached the automatically calculated minutes threshold, in this case, 1,710 minutes in the Premier League during 2023/24.